Daim
"Bar"

Taste:
2.5

Texture:
2

Novelty:
2.5

All
scores out of 5

This
isn’t the first time I’ve tasted a Daim product, however,
this might be the first time I’ve tasted a traditional Daim
bar, the way it was meant to be. At least I think it might be, I’m
never really sure when I taste a treat from a foreign land if the
one I’m sampling is the original. Often I discover that I’ve
in fact had a “new variety” and the original is apparently
so much better. The first version of this treat that I ever tried
was miniature lumps of Daim that I bought at IKEA (they’re a
Swedish favourite).

This one makes sense as
being the first, only because it would be strange for a bar to evolve
from the mini version into a solid bar version. I often find it happens
the other way around more often. The only reason I’m not 100%
sure that this is the original is because of the many versions I’ve
tried of Daim; this is probably my least favourite. The large chunk
of crunchy toffee in the centre is just way too much, both in flavour
and in texture. Because of its size the toffee flavour just overpowers
the chocolate, and the sticky texture is hard to eat comfortably.

I’ve tasted a few
bars like this in my day, most notably the Skor bar, but in many of
the other cases the toffee was much more subtle, and far less sticky.
Don’t get me wrong, this bars not bad, it’s just not as
good as some of the other Daim products I’ve tried, and it has
to do primarily with the toffee.